Lady Diana Manners
Lady Diana Manners (1891-1981), British society beauty, actress and wife of Duff Cooper. Later became Lady Duff Cooper, Viscountess Norwich. Pictured in 1915 in a spectacular evening cloak and headdress at the time when she was training to be a nurse at Guy's Hospital. A ubiquitous figure on the smart, social scene and a member of the Coterie (a group of friends and intellectuals, children of the Edwardian era Souls), the headline to this picture remarks that she is a, Deserter of the Drawing-Room for War : A Society Nurse
Picture No
13991376
Media ID
45429796
Size
3600px x 4954px
(2.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Rita Martin in The Sketch, 13 January 1915
Date
1915
